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Editorial: Farming in the age of Asimov
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Editorial: Farming in the age of Asimov

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The first time I picked up a book by Isaac Asimov, I was in high school and the book was “Foundation.” More recently, I got around to another Asimov classic, “I, Robot.”  If your only experience with Asimov’s AI-centred opus is the 2004 movie, forget everything you know. The book has less violent robot revolution
It makes sense that a group of industries already bitten, who now sees the same issues on the horizon, is loath to show up for another round.
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Editorial: Ghosts of CETA

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Canada’s cattle sectors aren’t the only ones up in arms about U.K. acceptance into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.  On Feb. 12, the pork industry also weighed in. It is vehemently against the idea of British participation in a trade agreement that, so far, has been pretty good to Canada’s meat-producing sectors.
Editorial: Fertile ground needed
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Editorial: Fertile ground needed

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Canada is the latest nation to join a multinational group looking to advance efficient and novel fertilizers. It’s not a shocking development for a federal government that’s made climate policy one of its signature initiatives.  The stated goals of the group are downright ‘mom and apple pie’, as it looks to support applied research that
Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom
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Editor’s Take: In praise of boredom

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It would be fair to describe the tone of farmers at this year’s Ag Days as ‘cautiously optimistic.’ Crop prices are down — but not out. And input prices are a mixed bag, according to analysts speaking at the event. They’re expecting urea prices to stay strong over the winter and into spring, but ammonia
Ranchers reliant on Crown land know exactly what leaseholders were promised and when they were promised it.
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Editorial: Much ado about nothing

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The Co-operator’s late 2023 interview with Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn included a carrot for forage Crown land leaseholders. He said there would be new announcements in the New Year. On Jan. 2, a press release arrived in media inboxes. Crown land changes were now in effect, it said, including that: Producers “felt abandoned by
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Comment: Non-AI doggerel

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The tree is took down and the sugar-free shortbread’s all eaten.That means that it’s time for the next New Year’s greetin’,And in doggerel (bad verses) to take a moment’s reflection,Plus make fearless predictions of farming’s future direction. Now given their druthers, farmers have usually thunk,That the ideal would be land in one contiguous chunk.But last
“Farmers today can produce two times as much with the same level of inputs,” says a new FCC report.
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Editorial: Production, productivity and climate change

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A tantalizing report from Farm Credit Canada recently estimated the riches that would flow if the productivity growth of the decades leading into the 21st century were to return. “Assuming the Canadian agriculture industry returns productivity growth to the plateau we recorded two decades ago, this would add as much as $30 billion in net
Editorial: The proxy war of Bill C-234
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Editorial: The proxy war of Bill C-234

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Good governance is often boring to watch from the outside. If things ever become entertaining, something has usually gone off the rails. Boring is not the word I’d use to describe Bill C-234’s push to clear Parliament in the last few weeks. On Dec. 7 and 8, drama around the bill had spilled back into
Canada can produce its own sugar. But it doesn’t.
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Editor’s Note: Sugar shortage makes for sticky business

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How can a strike involving 138 workers at a single refining operation in Vancouver affect the availability of sugar for 11 million Canadians in the four western provinces — and what does this situation tell us about our national food system as a whole? It certainly suggests that our sweet tooth has become too dependent
Some ag sectors will probably be less than kind toward a new film that looks at modern agricultural practices.
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Editor’s Take: Finding ‘Common Ground’

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This year’s Manitoba Forage and Grasslands Association Regenerative Ag Conference had something different on the schedule — a movie night. The association was granted Manitoba’s first screening of the documentary “Common Ground,” a follow up to “Kiss the Ground,” which debuted on Netflix in 2020. Like that one, “Common Ground” marketed itself as a hopeful

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